New Years Dinner

Another recipe clogging my email. I've started a tradition for New Years. I want to keep my family traditions alive, but update them for my blended family. I've decided to make New Years a fusion meal. The traditional southern meal that Granny made every year is black eyed peas (for peace), hog jaw (for joy), rice (for riches), collard or mustard greens (for money), corn bread (for prosperity), and pineapple upside down cake (for coins). The meal that I've settled on for our family tradition is curried black eyed peas, vegetarian bacon, basmati rice, curried spinach, corn bread, and pineapple upside down cake or banana pudding. It's taken me a couple of years to find the right curried black eyed peas recipe, but this one is really a winner. It's amazing how the curries go so well with the corn bread and facon.